10/02/13 Sustainability Council Meeting Agenda

AGENDA: Discuss sustainable passions and assign topics to focus on over the next 6 months — November 2013 thru April 2014

3:30 – Review SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL STRUCTURE within context of MISSION and STRATEGIC PLAN

4:00 – Narrowing our focus based on questions from the strategic plan:

How do we reduce the carbon footprint of the Manoa campus

How to achieve Zero Energy

How to achieve Zero Water

How to optimize exemplary storm water management practices

How do we become a model for alternative transportation options?

How do we provide access to locally-grown and organic food choices?

How do we reduce the waste stream into and out of campus?

How can we best encourage and sustain biodiversity?

Why is the implementation of sustainability practices critical to our economic, social, and environmental survival?

4:30 – Additional considerations:

Campus sustainability Day (Arbor Day?) — Roxanne Adams

Earth Day — Doorae Shin

SOFT — Gabe, Roxanne Adams, Heidi Bornhorst, Maria Gallo

Ongoing projects — Philip Johnson, Sam King, John Cusick

5:00 – Discuss speakers you’d like to invite, projects you want to focus on this year (e.g.: Earth Day, recycling, and water bottle filler when we discuss reducing the waste stream?) and develop an achievable list of goals for the next 6 months.

5:20 – Anyone wanting to float an idea is welcome to request 10 minutes on the agenda.